Question

A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 26% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 44,100 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Answer 1

the current amount of employees today represents an increase of 26% from the previous year, this can be written as:

$\begin{gathered} 1+26\% \\ 1+0.26 \\ 1.26 \end{gathered}$

then,

$44100=1.26x$

where x is the number of employees the previous year, then, solve for x

$\begin{gathered} x=\frac{44100}{1.26} \\ x=35000 \end{gathered}$

Answer:

there were 35000 employees one year ago.